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Ben Hecht
 
Date of birth: 28 February 1894
Date of death: 18 April 1964
Country Of Origin: America
Profession:

Screenwriter

Biography:
    Ben Hecht (February 28, 1894 – April 18, 1964) was a prolific Hollywood, California screenwriter, even though he professed disdain for the film industry. He was also well known as a supporter of Revisionist Zionism.
Life and career in Hollywood

Hecht was raised in Racine, Wisconsin, and as a young man moved to Chicago, Illinois, where he became a reporter and, eventually, a short-story writer and novelist. He eventually land .... (More...)
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" A man nearly always loves for other reasons than he thinks. A lover is apt to be as full of secrets from himself as is the object of his love from him. "

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" Chicago is a sort of journalistic Yellowstone Park, offering haven to a last herd of fantastic bravos. "

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" I have written a raucous valentine to a poet's dream and agony. "

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" In Hollywood, a starlet is the name for any woman under thirty who is not actively employed in a brothel. "

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" Love is a hole in the heart. "

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" Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat. "

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" People's sex habits are as well known in Hollywood as their political opinions, and much less criticized. "

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" Television excites me because it seems to be the last stamping ground of poetry, the last place where I hear women's hair rhapsodically described, women's faces acclaimed in odelike language. "

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" The honors Hollywood has for the writer are as dubious as tissue-paper cuff links. "

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" Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away. "

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" Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock. "

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" We looked on the hopheads, crooks and gunsels and on their bawdy ladies as members of a family among whom we were privileged to move. There was no caste system, moral or social, in our manners. "

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" We trotted, coach-dog fashion, at the heels of the human race, our tails awag. "

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